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Desert Island Discs

Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Desert Island Discs: Lucinda Lambton

01/10/1989

Lucinda Lambton

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Lucinda Lambton

Sue Lawley's castaway is photographer Lucinda Lambton

Sue Lawley's castaway is photographer Lucinda Lambton.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a woman of many passions - passions for places, people and the past. She is photographer Lucinda Lambton, and she'll be sharing her love of the unusual and the beautiful with Sue Lawley.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] 

Favourite track: Quartet (from Act 2 of Fidelio) by Ludwig van Beethoven
Book: Dictionary of National Biography
Luxury: Word processor

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics from 1946 – 2004.

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1946 – 2004.

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics. Over 900 programmes, as broadcast from 1946 – 2004.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Emission controls in California

Emission controls in California

BBC Radio 4 - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, Emission controls in California

Does California's environmental legislation set an example for other states to follow?

The adoption of emission controls in California, and Senator Jesse Helms' objection to the work of Robert Mapplethorpe being funded by the National Endowment for Art.

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